Henry



(No Model.)

- H. G. HOLL.

GLASS MONUMENT.

Arm/m a. mini 9mm. 01mm in;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. IIOLL, OF NEIV BERLIN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEVI A. STONER, OF SAME PLACE.

GLASS MONUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,650, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed September 17, 1887- Serial No. 249,996- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..- and hardened in proper form and afterward Be it known that I, HENRY C. HOLL, a citiplaced within the base or spire. zen of the United States, residing at New Ber- The base B may be provided with a tablet lin, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, plate, I), located Within each or any face of the have inx'ented certain new and useful Imbase B, upon which tablet-plate may be placed provements in Glass Monuments; and I do the desired inscription. This inscription may hereby declare that the following is a full, be made of gold-leaf, paint, or any other declear, and exact description of the same, refersired material; or, if desired, the inscription ence being had to the annexed drawings, makmay be upon paper, pasteboard, or like ma- IO ing a part of this specification, and to the letterial and attached to the said tablet or tabt-ers and figures of reference marked thereon, lets, or the inscription may be placed upon in which the inner side of the base B or spire C before Figure 1 is an isometrical view. Fig. 2 is said parts are filled. It will be seen that by a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is an isometthe use of the tablets a new inscription may 15 rical view showing the spire and its urn 'rebe placed in the proper position at any time moved and a tablet-plate partially elevated. subsequent to the erection of the monument The present invention has relation to monuproper. ments; and it consists in the different parts In case the base B is filled with material and combination of parts hereinafter de- While in a plastic state, the inner faces of the 20 scribed, and particularly pointed out in the tablets should be coated with a non-adhesive claim. substance, such as grease or wax, so as to pre- Similar letters of reference indicate correvent the filling from adhering to the tablets, sponding parts in all the figures of the drawthereby permitting the tablets to be removed ings. for any desired purpose. 25 In the accompanying drawings, A repre- For the purpose of securely holding the difsents the first base, which is preferably formed ferent parts of the monument in proper posiof stone and is placed upon a proper foundation the rod or bar D is provided, and is 10- tion. On the top of the first base, A, is placed cated substantially as shown in Fig. 2. The the second base, 13. This second base is top or upper end of this rod or bar is screw- 30 formed of glass and is hollow. The sides of threaded to receive the nut 11', as shown in ihis base 13 are formed of sufiicient thickness Fig. 2. The bottom or lower end of this red to give it the desired amount of strength. or bar D is provided with a head, which is The top or upper end of the second base, B, formed integral with said rod or bar and is provided with the flange a, which is formed placed in the base A substantially as shown 3 5 integral with the base B and is for the purin Fig. 2. For the purpose of securely holdpose of receiving and holding the bottom or ing said head in proper position melted metal lower end of the spire C, as shown in Fig. 2. may be poured around it and allowed to har- The spire C is also formed of glass and is den. hollow, its sides being of sufiicient thickness An urn or any other ornamental device 40 to give it the desired strength. The top or may be placed upon the top or upper end of upper end of the spire C is closed, shown the spire in Figs. 1 and 2. It will be mulerstood that The material used in filling may be of any the second base, B, and the spire may be desired color or colors. of any desired size or style. It will be understood that in order to re- 45 The base 13 and the spire C are filled with move the tablet b the spire (I must be replaster-of-paris, artificial stone, or like matemoved. It will also be understoml that a rial,which may be placed in said baseand spire third or any desired number of bases may be while in a plastic state and allowed to harden; used. The tablets b are preferably formed or, if desired, the plaster-of-paris, artificial tapering or wedge-shaped, in order to facili- 50 stone, or other material may be first molded tate their removal and replacement; but I do I00 not desire to be limited to this particular construction. V

In case the material used as filling is liable to expand and contract by heat or cold, said filling should be first molded or formed into the desired shape a little smaller than the space to be filled by it, so as to leave small spaces between said filling and the different faces of the glass.

I am aware that heretofore a monument has been made of hollow glass having a base of I stone, the parts of which are secured together by a rod passingthrough their center and screw-nutted at both ends, and that a monument has been made of hollow glass filled with plastic material; also, that a record-tablet has been made consisting of a glass case having a tapering recess for the receptionof a tablet, which is secured in said case by a hermetically-sealed plug, and that I do not claim.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by HENRY C. HOLL.

\Vitn esses:

LEVI A. SToNER, L. C. WIsE. 

